Sustainable Business and Policy

Build impactful knowledge that connects the industries of business, policy, and sustainability.

Program highlights:

  • Enhance your fundamental understanding of how economics and business play a critical role in advancing sustainable pursuits.
  • Explore the ways in which entrepreneurs, startups, and investors are aligned with climate initiatives in the private and public sectors.
  • Verse yourself in the language of government regulation in the context of sustainable markets.
https://nature.berkeley.edu/sustainable-business-and-policy
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Summer Minors and Certificates

Sustainability: Foundations for Sustainability and Justice

Five courses over one or two summers

Tackle planet-sized issues related to the environment, culture, and economics and gain skills that build confidence while working in these spaces.

Program highlights:

  • Establish interdisciplinary competency across subjects and industries related to climate, policy, biology, environmental justice, and more.
  • Look at environmental changes and challenges through both a local and global lens.
  • Discover emerging technologies and policies related to sustainability that have the ability to impact everyday life.
https://erg.berkeley.edu/academics/sustainability/
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Summer Minors and Certificates

Race and the Law

Expand your understanding how race and the law interconnect in the United States and beyond.

Program highlights:

  • Confront truths that explore how the law works to solidify racial differences and hierarchies.
  • Discover historical examples of radicalized peoples using the law as a tool of protest and social change.
  • Engage in meaningful discourse about the past, present, and future of the social movements, the carceral state, and civil rights.
https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/undergraduate-program/race-and-law-summer-mi…
Seats in a jury box
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Summer Minors and Certificates

Journalism in the Digital Age

Modernize your communications proficiency and develop the confidence to not only consume media, but also produce impactful writing and reporting.

Program highlights:

  • Development skills that are applicable across traditional and emerging platforms.
  • Examine real-world examples of communications, reporting, and production strategies.
  • Familiarize yourself with emerging methods for utilizing social media, video, print, and other mediums to reach audiences.
https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/summer-minor-program/
News reporter behind a camera
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Summer Minors and Certificates

Global Public Health

Develop critical knowledge that has the ability to improve human populations, prevent disease, and promote health.

Program highlights:

  • Learn about the many disciplines that promote and protect human health.
  • Create connections between knowledge of the public health space and human rights principles.
  • Discover ways in which varying cultural perspectives can enhance, challenge, and impact global health systems.
http://sph.berkeley.edu/undergraduate-major/summer-minor-global-public-health
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Summer Minors and Certificates

Digital Humanities (online)

Ask timeless questions and answer them using modern-day tools and technologies. 

Program highlights:

  • Equip yourself with digital tools to create, analyze, and represent your research in digital form.
  • Analyze technical and humanistic knowledge through a digital framework.
  • Merge the traditions and philosophies of the humanities with the newness and innovations of the modern world.
https://summerdigitalhumanities.berkeley.edu/
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Summer Minors and Certificates

The Developing Child

Enrich your knowledge, experience, and approach to working with or on behalf of young children.

Program highlights:

  • Integrate research, practice, and policy into real-world skills.
  • Learn critical, interdisciplinary skills that focus on children from birth to age 8.
  • Develop knowledge through innovative coursework that will positively impact future generations.
http://ihd.berkeley.edu/research-centers/early-development-learning-science/min…
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Summer Minors and Certificates

Cognitive Science and the Future of Tech

Navigate the ever-evolving relationship between the mind and machines across business and industries.

Program highlights:

  • Make connections between technology and the brain in the context of education, critical thinking, sentience, and creativity.
  • Learn how matters of the mind affect our relationships with the areas of AI, medicine, human rights, and so much more.
  • Address philosophical questions about the future of human cognition in an ever-changing, tech-centric society.
https://cogsci.berkeley.edu/undergraduate-program/summer-minor-cognitive-scienc…
graphic of brain and chip technology
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Summer Minors and Certificates

Clinical & Counseling Psychology

Explore the increasingly complex world of clinical and counseling psychology through a psycho-biological, social, and cultural lens.

Program highlights:

  • Analyze mental health problems across the life span.
  • Determine how mental health manifests itself in various professions.
  • Discover emerging career paths rooted in psychological practice.
https://psychology.berkeley.edu/students/undergraduate-program/minor-requiremen…
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Summer Minors and Certificates